Home Daycare

Home daycare, also known as family daycare, is exactly what it sounds like --...
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Home daycare, also known as family daycare, is exactly what it sounds like -- daycare in a home instead of a center. This is a place where home daycare providers and parents who use home daycares can come and ask questions, vent, or just get support.
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This is a group created by Home Daycare Providers, but anyone who cares for children (including parents, grandparents, nannies, teachers, babysitters...) are welcomed! Below you will find our group guidelines, in addition to a link to the BabyCenter user guidelines. Please take the time to read all of these guidelines before you post here. Then, search the group for the thread titled "Introductions", and introduce yourself. If you can not find this thread, please create a thread of introduction.

Home Daycare Group Guidelines

I. Abide by the community guidelines.

www.babycenter.com/community-help-g... < Copy and paste this link in your browser.This will link you to the BabyCenter Community Guidelines, and other useful information about the site. The BabyCenter Community Guidelines can also be found by scrolling down to the bottom of the page, and clicking on "community guidelines".

II. Play Nice!

The deliberate undermining of any member's ability to have a positive community experience, will not be tolerated or accepted. Personal Attacks are not allowed. When commenting on or creating threads, members should be considerate of the feelings and opinions of others. All opinions are welcome, and members are expected to be patient and understanding with others who pose a different opinion. Do not "call out" or name a specific person or group. Do not name call or make offensive comments. Use positive and constructive language. The Group Owners reserve the right to request members to edit threads, to remove threads, delete comments, lock threads, and report members and their posts/threads.

III. Do not post profanity or vulgar language.

Remember there may be small children around when other's post on this board.

IV. No Advertising, Marketing, or SPAM allowed in this group. Do not share links to your personal, or your friend or relatives website, FB page, online Journal, blog, or related sites. Do not post threads asking for individual's links to their, their friends, or their relatives website, FB, online journal, blog, or related sites.
The babycenter guidelines state that marketing and advertising is not allowed in any bbc public group (except three set up for this purpose). This now includes, but is not limited to promoting your blog, website, FB page, and such, within the threads of a public group, especially if you gain from people using these links. You may, according to the guidelines, share the link to your blog,website, FB page, etc, within your siggy. You may advertise and market these things within your Private Groups, if allowed by the group.

Babycenter supports group guidelines that address this issue. In our group, we want to discourage advertising, marketing, and fishing, so that our members are not in violation with the site's guidelines. We also feel that this type of post is disruptive to our group, making it seem that one member's experience, advice, and support is more valued than another's. We want to encourage members to support each other here, within the group. We want all of our members to to benefit from the advice, experience, and support they receive here.

Your blogs, websites, etc, also are of value to the members of this group. Therefore, we will create a method of sharing these things. The GOs will be creating a special thread for sharing links. It will be a closed thread. You will need to message a GO with the link, who will check it out, and if appropriate, link it to the thread.

The basics:

-You may not post threads or comments like: "PAN me for the link", "Can I get a link to member x's website, I can help you with xyz, PAN me for help".

-If a member asks if anyone blogs, has a business website, etc... you may PAN to the member who asked, providing them the link etc, you may direct them to the thread for these links.

-You may set up a private group, to share this information.

-You may link to your website, blog, FB, and journal in your siggy

-You are encouraged to message a GO with your link. If approved, the GO will post your link to the appropriate thread.

V. Direct questions, complaints, or concerns about this group to the Group Owners.

If anyone has any questions, concerns or complaints, please do not hesitate to contact one of the Home Daycare Group Owners. We can be found in the Group Member section on the left side of your screen.